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The Idiot: His Place in Creation, and His Claims on Society · Frederick Bateman — chapter 17 of 17 · ~309 words · public domain

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"That part of the work most interesting to us is the chapter on the Medical Jurisprudence of Aphasia, the hints on criminal Anthropology, the Chemistry of the Brain, and the question of Localisation of the Faculty of Speech.

"The work on the whole is a very valuable contribution to the literature of Aphasia, and will be welcomed by all Neurologists."

From the Alienist and Neurologist.

"This is a valuable contribution to the history and literature of the subject, a subject not yet too old to have lost its interest to either professional or lay reader.

"No library of the literature of Aphasia, however, would be complete without this book. The author is elaborate without complexity."

London: Jarrold and Sons, 10 and 11, Warwick Lane, E.C.

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Transcriber's Notes

Obvious punctuation and spelling errors repaired.

Italic text is denoted by underscore and bold text by =equal signs=.

Inconsistent hyphenation has been repaired.

The oe and ae ligatures in the text has been left as it appears in the original book.

On page 47 "genetous" replaced with "genetic". On page 59 "demostand" replaced with "demonstrants". On page 81 "artizan" replaced with "artisan".

Greek translations:

sôma, psychê, pneuma σωμα, ψυχη, πνευμα

idiotês ιδιοτης

iatros kaì ìdiôtês ιατρος καì ìδιωτης

Ho de nous eoiken enginesthai ousia tis ousa, kai ou phtheiresthai. Ὁ δε νους εοικεν εγγινεσθαι ουσια τις ουσα, και ου φθειρεσθαι.

nous νους

ousia ουσια

logos λογος

en métrô hôs poiêtês, hê haneu métrou hôs idiôtês εν μéτρω ὡς ποιητης, ἡ ἁνευ μéτρου ὡς ιδιωτης

iatros kahi hisiôtês ιατρος καἱ ἱσιωτης

In ambiguous cases, the text has been left as it appears in the original book. In particular, many mismatched quotation marks have not been changed.

The following numerous errors were left as is: endquote missing punctuation wrong spaced quotes long line errors appear only with Greek lettering

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